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THE MOltNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 5, 97 THE MORNING ASTORIAN Published Daily Sxccpt Monday by Mi. J. & DELUHGE1 COUP AIT. SUBSCRIPTION RATI By mail, p year..... By carrier, pr month. 1700 .10 WEEKLY ASTORIA. B, nail, per yr, la adTano. .11.90 Kntn4 a swood-las mnr July M.l. at tb poslofflo at Astoria, Or. roo,andarUMiMiofCMfraHol March, IS ervynkn tw the MtrcraK ot Tn Mom D&rouIDtUur ssaiaeae r plae of. biaMM r h nads br postal etrd or Uuxxuii sskkAaa. Any Irregularity la d UvhjVimIA t tmi alstsfr rsyorfrd to th otto f pubUaattoaL TILXPUONI MAIN ttu Ofltoial nwt of CUUoo county and UMdty ofAstorla. WEATHER. ' Oregon, Washington, Idaho Fair and wanner. A BIT OF FOUR-FLUSHING. Ia recent interview with repre sentative of the Portland Journal, T. B. Wilcox, the leading grain and bread stuff handler of the Northwest, after drawing certain parallels between the statu of Portland and the Sound cities in the grain exporting business, in which Portland is man-handled for re linquishing her own prestige to Taeoma and Seattle, and indicating that Puget Sound is doing double the export trade in this line, winds up the statement with the following indication as to the rea sons therefore: "Well, there are several reasons, but perhaps the most vital one is the lack of vessels in which to transport Portland wheat and flour to the Orient. Let us look at the figures again. The shipments from the Sound to the Orient are, ex pressed in bushels: Flour, 12392,000; wheat. 797,000; total, $13,689,000. From Portland: Flour, 5,562,000; wheat, 2, 606,000; total ,8,168,000. Nearly twice as much from the Sound, you see, as from Portland to the Orient, and almost all of the Sound trade you will also note, is in flour, while practically the Sound trade to the Orient in wheat and Hour goes in regular vessels, is sure and steady. That from Portland must hunt' for Bhips. In fact, over half of the Portland wheat and flour shipments goes in tramp steamers, which the shipper has to rustle to find. 1 "The cure of this condition, so vital to Portland, I will not attempt to sug gest. But one thing is sure: The North Bank Road is going to pour grain down the Columbia oheaper than it can be hauled across the Cascades into the Sound cities. If Portland is alive and gets the proper shipping conditions on the water she will capture her full share of it; but if things are not done soon to improve the "hipping conditions to the Orient in regards to ships, harbor, channel, etc, then Portland may awake too late to find that the trade that might be here has rolled past her doors and docks to Puget Sound. "I simply point out the facts, backed by the figures, as they are at present. The cure and the future I do not care to be interviewed about just now." There is no one man in all this coun try better qualified to tell the inner truths of the grain and flour trade of the Columbia Basin than this veteran dealer, who has swayed these interests for long years; whose word commands confidence whether it carries all the truth or but part of it, as in this very instance. T. B. Wilcox is, primarily, at the bot tom of the drift of the grain export from Portland to the Sound country, dime he had always rather see it go from there than from its logical gate way, here at Astoria. And it was to keep it from swinging hitherto that he designed and put in operation the trend that he now deprecates. 1 Here was never an hour in liig life that he could not have held it to Portland by utiliz ing this port; and he knows better than anyone else, that what oi the business Portland is to control in the future, will be held by virtue of this very cban nel and the establishment of an ocean port rate, the lowest in the world, at this place; be knows that the bulk of that trade is going abroad from here and James J. Hill has ordained it and paid millions to achieve it and that it will be put in operation in Mr. Hill's own good time, which is not very far hence. The tNbrth Bank Railway does not end at Portland, though the cream of the handling and direction of the grain and flour business may center there, and destined for the outer VvrM from the markets of Oregon. It is right that Portland should a Mime and maintain the commanding place in this important element of the world's exporting bikini'. H i her inherent and rational advantage, and to take it over, she must waive her old time fear and dislike of Astoria, ami abandon her churns to port advantages against which the differential have al way applied, and do her legitimate Im-ines with the world vU her near-by and useable port in favor of which, and Portland' business, the supreme ad vantage of a preferential rate must soon be irrauted. Tills is the doctrine of Portland's salvation, and A-toria will gratefully and helpfully, meet the over tnre that shall be made in this direc tion. It is the only solution and the best. 0 ' EDITORIAL SALAD. CS! When it pays a firm, outside the busi ness, to conduct New York barber shops, a dozen at once, it is a straight tip that somebody i being trimmed, and profit, at least, are not getting a close shave. will, if Portland iroe after 1L With twenty-four millions invested in a water level liut from the inland em pir to the Pacific Ocean, it is not likely that Mr. llill is going to still climb the mountain h has circumvented at such immense cost, and continue the bulk of grain shipment from the Sound ports. .Mr. VUlcox knows tins a no one el knows it, for it is his business to know it; but rather than ackuowl- edgtt that hit policy has been vain and ruinous, he still talks of the output going abroad from Pl'UET SOUND. With his, insular bull-headednes he tries to make is apparent that Hill, the man wlu ha solved Portland's salvation in this matter (if Portland knows how to apply it), ha spent this vast sunt' and achieved this great plan, simply to ignore its advantage and still send his trains over the grade h has sought to avoid. , It is either a piece of senseless folly or a bit of 'four-flushing'' on the part of this man Wilcox. There is no reason why Portland should not regain supreme control of the grain trade by simply making Astoria her right-bower, her depot, her port of departure, with a flat seaboard rate at taching; and this she will do in time, however ungracious she may be about it just now; it is the line of safety for her ami her merchants know it, and we know it. The question of ship is simply the question of rates. The best rate on any commodity controls the line it will pursue to market, and if Portland once adopts this device, and secures the rate, to this port, aU else being equal and propitious, as all eNe is, in this huge premise, she will still be mistress of the situation, with Mr. Wilcox still figuring potently in the foreground of the great trade as usual Bar, bay and river must be put in shape for the handling of the fleets and Portland must get busy in this interest and stay busy; otherwise, Mr. Hill will do the trick by himself and Portland will see her right ful influence and interests swept from her by reason of her own negligence. She must gag a bit over the final and flagrant recognition of Astoria as the real port of the upper coast, but this will wear off in time, and that she, Portland, is still in the dominant place in regard to the business, will help abate the prejudice and discomfort in separable from the long-delayed con viction that Astoria is the one and only accessible, cheap, sevieeable, and logical L t t. I .. V A. . ip A J . .. ) ..v.u w v tyMornlng Agtorlan, 60 cents flour and all other surplusages t&at "e; deUww, er. The longist day of the year, accord ing to the calendar, June 22, seemed very short alongside of the Fourth yesterday in Astoria. 0 Now that the city has purchased' another chemical engine, we wonder just bow much the Insurance rate will le advanced. FOR SOUTH SEAS Defaulting Treasurer Supposed to be Afloat. The Store For Women BEE&fJi)ilIVE Ladles Outfitter! J WE ARK BEGINNING OUR WILL NOT EXCEED $97,000 The student of nature finds much to admire in the YMfl model In bathing suits. G.B. Burhasn testifies After Four Year G. B. Burhans. of Carlisle Center, N Y, writes: "About four years ago 1 wrote yon stating that I had been en tirely cured of a severe kidney trouble bv tfikinz le- than two bottle of Foley' Kidney Cur It entirely stop ped the brick dust sediment, and pain and symptoms of kidney disease disap peared. I am glad to say that I have never had a return of any of those symptoms during the four years that have elapsed and I am evidently cured to stay cured, and heartily recommend Foley' Kidney Cur to any on suffer ing from kidney or bladder tauble." T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. per The Season's Crop Outlook. By JAMES WILSON. Secretary of Afrlcultur EEDDTG has been a little backward on account of the cold weather, but there ia plenty of time k'twecn now and the last of September to grow a crop r.f ALL ET2CB3 of gr-ix . In Minnesota and the Dakotag, where vo rr.La wast oi our Bpri:.-' wheat, seeding was delayed about two v, c.L.3. While the weather has been unseasonably cold in sonie grain re gions, still it has not been severe enough to retard plowing, and my advices are that the ground in thoso states was nearly all made ready to receive the seed in good time. We will have warm weather, and I don't see what is to prevent a NORMAL CROP of spring wheat in the United States. As regards the Canadian northwest, the reports ! that this year's harvest may be SERIOUSLY DI- j MIXISHED may have some foundation. Accord- ing to what I regard as authentic advices from that region, tho weather ha been so cold that plowing has been almost impossible. THE CANADIAN FARMER HAS U8UALLY LEFT HI8 PLOWING FOR THE SPRING, AND THIS YEAR HE FIND8 HIMSELF IN A BAD PREDICAMENT. However, such a condition in the Canadian northwest will not make a great deal of difference when this year's crop is HARVESTED. The Canadian farmer grows but a small portion of the total crop of wheat, and I am of the opinion that the deficiency, if there should be any in that part of the country this year, WILL HARDLY BE NOTICED when the harvesting throughout the world has been com pleted. New York to Become a Desert. By EDWARD H. HALL, Secretary of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondack!. EW YORK 8TATE FINALLY WILL BECOME AS BARREN AS THE DESERT OF SAHARA UNLESS SOMETHING 13 DONE TO PUT AN END TO THE SPOLIATION OF THE FORESTS AND STREAMS. Today her forests are practically limited to tho Adirondacks and Catstill mountains. Climatic conditions have changed noticeably where this denudation has taken place. Streams have dried up entirely or become SPASMODIC and UNRELIABLE for industrial pur poses. These conditions are now beginning to arise in tho region tributary to the Adirondacks, and if a halt is not made and vigorous efforts put forth to retrieve the indiscretions of the past New York state will become AS BARREN AS THE DESERT OF SA HARA, her farms will be ruined, her mountains will bo naked of trees and soil, her rivers will disappear as rivers and become mere troughs for carrying off the rainfall of each passing shower. , It is therefore the present duty of tho people of New York to do, three things: First, to protect INVIOLATE every acre and tree that we now have, in the forest preserve; second, to extend as rapidly as possible the area of this preserve, and third, to REPLANT tu rapidly as possible the denuded areas. He Carrie Large Revolver Belonging To Trust Company and it i Thought That Be Will Kill Himself Rather Than Be Captured. NKYV YORK, July 4,-Chester K Bunyan, tfHlUng teller of the Wind tor Trust company, whose amaiing theft of tWWlj rroiu the hank vault was chronicled yesterday, is believed by the detectives at work on the case, to be on board of a sailing vessel bound for tin1 south sea. Hie officers learned that Bunyan talked a great deal of such trip in search of health and, a not trace of hliu has been found, they think he arranged with some south sea ship .per who sailed Saturday for passage. It has been learned that Rimyuu took with him a large revolver, the uroiter ty of the trut wmpany, It wa ued daily by the asiNtant teller on his vis its with larc,e sums of money to the National Bank of Commerce, with which the Windsor Trust company has large dealings. From this it was axstimed that the fugitive hd it in mind to kill hlmeif if he were captured in getting avay with hu plunder. That the sum total of Ilunvan's drilling wilt approximate a larger sum than that announced Is denied by all the bank officers. They positively declare the present can will in no way resem hie the Trut company of America, the theft from which grew from WiMKW to t'uoO.fHH). Ceorge W. Young, one of the active members of the directorate, averted that the thorough examination made of all the records of the trust funds has not revealed penny shortage IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE. It make all th difference In the world to th convivial man where, and what, he drink. Most men desire beauty and cleanliness, and handsome appointment In th saloon they pat ronise regularly, a well as th essen tial pre-requlsttc of genuine win an4 liquor that are served to them, And these thing r particularly and properly consplcuou at Otto- Sund's elegant resort, the CommerclaL at No 60 on the street of that nam th' they account thoroughly for th flxd and splendlJ cusom he enjoys. Thr Is nothing alloved to pass bis countei but the best and choicest In every de partment of Indulgence, and th ser vice behind It all. Is the most pleasing and satisfying In t"A city. During the summer kidney irregulari ties are often caused by exeensive drink ing or being overheated. Attend to the kidneys at once by uing Foley's Kidney Cure. T. F. l-anrin. Owl Drug Store. Summer Cleaning lip Salej RIGHT NOW, WHUK THE SUMMER IS STILL Y0UN0. ALL NOVELTY DRESS GOODS, Ii.ij AND UNDER, CUT 10 PER CENT. ALL NOVELTY DRESS GOODS OVER tt.tj CUT to PER CENT. WE HAVE MANY ON HAND YOU BARGAIN. BEAUTIFUL AND CHOICE PATTERNS STILL CAN BUY NOW A SWELL DRESS AT A SALE ON COLORED LAWNS AND HICK GRADE COTTON NOV. ELT1ES. is AND to CENT LAWNS, 10 CENTS. 30 CENT NOVELTIES SUITABLE FOR EVENING WEAR, YOUR CHOICE 33 CENTS. rf , .. , k.- THE BEE HIVE 530 Commercial Stn 44 ASTORIA, ORE, SCOW BAY IRON & BRASS WORKS AMTOUI.A, OltKOON IRON iAND BRASS FOUNDERS' LAND AND MARINE ENGINEERS tVio-l'iii w Will Msthtiiu)! rionift attention tlvsu tol. reirwort 'flth and Franklin Av. Tsl. Main 24t Special MALT! Brew BUILD UP! DRINK i Star Brewery Noted for it's PURITY QUALITY CLEANLINESS A Great Appetizer, Equal to Imported Stout $1.75 the dozer. wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm AMERICAN IMPORTING CO. 589 Commercial Street FINANCIAL. SHORT TALKS BY L. T. COOPER. IMPURE BLOOD. N MUSH"'! UTTLS SOH Of MIS. HAHH, II you could see Inside the stomachs of most people who suHcrtrom impure blood you would wonder that they are not suffering worse. The undigested portion ol food eaten dsys ago is till lying there, fer menting, de csying and ologging the intestines. From this disgusting rosis th blood must derive nourishment to carry to every or gan of the body. Think of it. I it any wonder their complexion is bad, their breath offensive, their bowels inactive and their health Impaired in every wsy? Is it any wonder that they can get no relief from blood purifiers, purgatives when as fast as the blood is cleansed it is ainted again? Try a rational treatment. Take something to help the stomach rid itself of this stagnant mass and to keep it from ao cumulating. Then see if you don't im prove. One bottle of Cooper's New Dis covery will prove my words to you. I have seen hundreds of just such cases and here's one of themt "About year ago my little son, who is nearly four years of age, suffered an at tack of scarlet fever. Soon after he con traded what we thought was some form of eczema. Sores and blotches broke out on him and he beoame weak and peevish." "We tried physicians and medicines but nothing seemed to help him until several weeks ago we started to give him Coop, er's New Discovery and noticed an im provement almost immediately. After few doses we noticed his appetite was better and gradually his little face assumed a brighter appearance. His skin is now cleared up and I want to thank you sin cerely for what the medicine has done for him' Mrs. Herman Hahn, 823 Johnson St., Nashville, Tenn, COLUMBIA TRUST COMPANY Astoria Savings Bank Building. Couch Building. Portland Offices Ask us about Mr. Cooper' tamoua , medicines. , We are the agents. ., Charles Rogers General Real Estate, Investment and Trust Business. Prooertv Cared for. Rentals and ' Insurance. V- F. N. CLARK, Pre. J. A. LEE, Vl- c Pres. 0. L FERRIS, Sw. Twaa. First National Bank of Astoria, Ore. i:mtailiniii:i inwi. Capital $100,000 y. A. B0WLBY, Pnmidaat. I. PETERSON. Vios-Pmsidsnt. 1t AjN K PATTON, Casblor. J. IV. OAKNKR. Assistant Cssht.i. 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